Use My Top Down Method Before Picking Stocks

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]One of the things that I teach inside of Power Traders University, which is I teach my students how to do what's called the top-down method, which is where you look at the broader market the S&P 500 and say is it in a bearish or a bullish trend? Then you go to the subsectors and say which sectors are in a bullish or bearish trend, and then you drill down to the individual stocks. Let me show you what I mean. So, when you look at the S&P 500, obviously you can just type the SPX.

[00:00:28]You have the S&P 500. But do you know what stocks or what sector is causing the S&P 500 to be up today? Most of the time you don't, but with the power of list or sectors in the list, you can now sort by positive cash flow or just by clicking this change button right here.

[00:00:48]So, you can say who's the biggest change positive for the day or who's the biggest change negative.

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